Two Applications of Sliding Mode Control in Energy Generation and Power Electronics

Introduction

Power electronics is concerned with electromechanical systems that carry power. In a wide sense, power electronics includes the analysis, synthesis and implementation of electrical motors and generators, as well as power converters. Several controllers designed in the framework of Sliding Mode can be found in specialized literature; in particular it is worth to quote the book of V.I. Utkin, J. Guldner and J. Shi [8] where several motors, generators and power converters were studied in the SMC domain. The authors took benefit of these systems to explain the advantages of SM as a robust control methodology and to show most of its applications in dynamical systems: as estimators, observers, …This chapter is also devoted to electrical generators and power converters stressing implementation issues. We want to emphasize implementation procedures based on theory in front of the trial and error, a tuning method widely used even at universities. On the other way around, we are also interested in theoretical problems appeared when implementing algorithms.